Anchieta: Missa Sine Nomine

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Cat No: 8555772

Release Date: 01 November 2003

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313577224

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: ANCHIETA

Description
Juan de Anchieta (1462-1523)Missa Sine Nomine Salve reginaThe second son of Martin Garcia de Anchieta and Urtayzaga deLoyola, who was a great-aunt of the future saint, Ignatius Loyola, founder ofthe Society of Jesus, members of a leading family in the Basque country, Juande Anchieta was born in 1462 near Azpeitia in Guip??zcoa in the Iraurgui valley.Although there is no information about his formative years, it is possible thathe served as a chorister in the chapel of Henry IV of Castile and perhapsstudied at Salamanca University, where Diego de Fermoselle, an elder brother ofJuan del Encina, taught. In 1489 he was appointed as a singer in the CourtChapel of Queen Isabella the Catholic, with a salary of 20,000 maravedis,increased in 1493 to 30,000 maravedis. In 1495 he was appointed maestro dicapilla to the Prince Don Juan. After the death of the Prince in 1497 hereturned to the service of the Queen, to be rewarded with benefices at thecathedral of Granada and of Villarino, travelling with the court, as required.In 1503 he was appointed rector of San Sebastian de Soreasu, a position he heldin absentia. After the death of Queen Isabella in 1504 he served her heir,Joanna the Mad. His position at court continued to involve a number ofjourneys, notably to Brussels in the service of Joanna the Mad and her husbandPhilip the Fair of Burgundy. His travel to Brussels was together with Pierre dela Rue, Alexander Agricola and Marbriano de Orto, singers in the Court Chapel.He spent the early months of 1506, from January to March, in England, where theroyal fleet was detained, on the voyage back to Spain. At the beginning of 1509he accompanied Queen Joanna to her refuge at Tordesillas, and remained with heruntil her abdication. Anchieta's salary under Queen Joanna between 1507 and1516 was 45,000 maravedis. In 1518 he was made Abbot of Arbas, succeeded at SanSebastian de Soreasu by his nephew, who was murdered shortly afterwards.Earlier years had brought family conflict when he was assaulted by two of theLoyola brothers. In 1519, at the wish of the Emperor Charles V, whom he hadpresumably served as tutor, Anchieta retired, retaining his salary. He wasallowed by papal dispensation to transfer his income from the benefice ofVillarino to a Franciscan convent that he established in Azpeitia, where hespent the rest of his life and where he hoped to be buried, although, at hisdeath in 1523, this did not happen. Of Anchieta's compositions some thirty works survive, amongthem two complete Masses, two Magnificats, a Salve Regina, four attributedPassion settings, with other sacred works and four composition with Spanishtexts. Anchieta was among the leading Spanish composers of sacred music of histime. His writing is largely designed for the ample resources of the courtchapel of the Reyes Catholicos. The composer Francisco de Penalosa, whose Sancta mater istudagas, once attributed to Josquin, is included between the Credo and theOffertorium, was held in even higher este
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